Rent prices tend to vary by borough, neighborhood, or street. It’s fairly unusual, then, to see a wide range of rental rates within one building. But at the Dock Studios building in East Williamsburg, owned by Grand Morgan Realty, there’s tenants just over the moon and those who are ready to get the heck out.

Here are some links about dogs, artists moving out of the city, and why the Brooklyn Museum is updating Wikipedia pages.

If you love dogs, then the 49th Annual Grand American Coon Hunt in South Carolina might be for you. You must also like barking though; dogs compete for the most barks per 30 seconds. [VICE]

In 2009 three sculptures stolen from a Hindu temple in India were confiscated by U.S. special agents in New York. Today officials will hand over these artifacts over to the Indian consulate in New York. [City Room Blog]

Climate change is real, but if there are no scientists to tell us that, perhaps that will make it easier for conservative governments to force through bills that ignore those problems. The Canadian Federal Government has dismissed over 2,000 scientists in five years. [CBC]

The Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan responds to Bill Keller’s piece about Lisa Bonchek Adams, a blogger known for chronicling her 4th stage breast cancer treatment. Keller’s piece remains, but Sullivan concedes that Keller did not take the appropriate amount of time to understand his subject’s work. [The New York Times]

The Brooklyn Heights Association’s library redevelopment questionnaire reminds me of trying to select a healthcare plan on the Obamacare website. You have no idea what you’re looking at or how to apply selection criteria. It turns out the “redevelopment plan” they’re polling us on includes selling the libraries. Your opinion on whether that’s a good idea isn’t asked until 3 pages in (question 9), and the plan is described only as the “redevelopment plan.” SKEEVY. [Brooklyn Heights Blog]

Looks like the worry of artists leaving New York has been on people’s minds for a while. A sobering article from 2010 reports that New York art executives are concerned that art school graduates aren’t even attempting to move to New York at the beginning of their careers. Kate Tepper, a Cooper Union student is moving to Chicago the day her lease expires. “There was a romanticism about being an artist in New York that was handed down in stories, but no artist I know is living that kind of life here,” Ms. Tepper says. “In other cities where space is affordable, artists are now living the kind of life we dreamed about in New York.” [Crain’s]

Alexandra Thom, with the support of the Kress Foundation, spent the bulk of last year making sure that Wikipedia articles on the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings were accurate. Hrag Vartanian reports. [Hyperallergic]

Artists Space redesigned their website, getting rid of their big, neon, triangular, blinking web 1.0 cursor. [Artists Space via Rhizome]After the opening of Yayoi Kusama’s current show at David Zwirner, people were waiting in line for hours to see Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Rooms.” The gallery’s solution to this ridiculous problem: 45-second-long sessions inside the rooms. [Wall Street Journal]

This profile of David Zwirner doesn’t spill too many trade secrets, but offers a clear history of Zwirner’s rise and the sheer volume of business being done in the upper tiers of the art world. [The New Yorker]

“He spoke to his paintings. They were his friends, the loyal companions that didn’t exist in his real life.” Der Spiegel profiles Cornelius Gurlitt, best known as the man responsible for hiding a recently unearthed collection of Nazi-looted artworks. [Der Spiegel]

Citing rising rents in a building owned by Cooper Union, St. Marks Bookshop is moving a few doors down in the East Village. [CBS]

Last night, members of Free Cooper Union put on dinner-theater reading at e-flux where they read aloud from documents leaked from their college’s trustees. In case you missed it, there’s a livestream. [Free Cooper Union]

Oddly, Peter Schjeldahl begins his review of Isa Genzken’s show at MoMA by painting a picture of her as a fairly unknown artist. [The New Yorker]

There’s been a variety of fun and whimsical art events lately, but every once in a while there’s a week of substantive works which we’ll be thinking back on for years to come. Performa is one of those, and the online biennial “The Wrong” might be another. And after 41 years, this Tuesday’s event at the Clocktower Gallery may be your last opportunity to visit before it’s turned into luxury condos.

Icelanders will not put up with your “nature terrorism”. A handful of Berlin-based artists are under investigation by the Icelandic authorities for spray-painting the Mývatn wetland area. [The Art Newspaper]

If you thought art collectors were eccentric, just wait until you read this profile on rare egg collectors, as well as rare egg thieves and curators. [The New Yorker]

The Chicago Transit Authority has commissioned artist Theaster Gates to create a permanent installation for the 95th and Dan Ryan station, as part of a long-term Red Line expansion. The project will cost an estimated $1.3 million and will establish an apprenticeship program for students. Construction will begin in 2016. [Bad at Sports]

Expanding your gallery to London’s the cool new thing. [New York Times]

Picasso’s stepdaughter accuses her former handyman of having stolen over 400 of Picasso’s works. [Huffington Post]

Honest Eds, a Toronto-based block-wide discount store known for its flashing lights, has been quietly put up for sale along with some other property owned by The Mirvish Family. David Mirvish is an art collector who’s been in the news lately after he sued the Knoedler Gallery for not working hard enough to sell paintings he believes are real. Very few people share this belief. [National Post]

Possible good news for G Train riders (that’s us!). A review of the service makes several recommendations, amongst them, that the MTA add cars and increase train frequency. The estimated cost to these improvements is $700,000 and could be approved as early as the end of the month. [Bedford+Bowery]

Hey, look, another medium to which we’re not yet desensitized: fly puke and shit! [Grist]

Doryun Chong, Associate Curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, has been named chief curator for Hong Kong’s M+ starting this fall. [Gallerist NY]

One Hopi artifact (out of 70) has been returned to its owners after a controversial Paris auction in April [New York Times Blog]

This article about the lack of regulation in the art market starts off on a strange note: “A gallerist and an economist walked into an art gallery opening. The paintings on display featured the rape of dismembered corpses. The economist was horrified, but the gallerist said the work was good and the artist had a promising career.” Oh, those strange gallerists. [Quartz]

A chicken has been slaughtered in the name of art. Heads have rolled. ARTINFO’s Sky Goodden breaks down the event, the aftermath and the precedents. [ARTINFO]

Smoking pot will give you a skinny waist. There’s probably some other factors contributing to the overall weight of pot smokers, but they’re definitely not as interesting. Now, like a make-you-feel-better pill or healthy vitamin, you can take your pot in liquid form. Sluurrrp. [The Daily Beast]

Hrag Vartanian produced a great GIF of Christie’s auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen last night. Also, rich people bought more contemporary art than ever before! Total sale from last night’s auction: $495 million. [Hyperallergic]